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Re: Guix Documentation Meetup
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Matt |
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Re: Guix Documentation Meetup |
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Wed, 12 Jan 2022 19:04:43 -0500 |
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---- On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 13:41:10 -0500 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote
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> On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 04:12:57PM -0500, Matt wrote:
> > I did. Maybe you missed the two blog posts I linked in the previous
> > email?
>
> Yeah, I did miss that you intended to contribute them.
>
> There is another side of my advice about submitting your contributions
> however you can: It's still important to try to communicate clearly.
> Your message includes several paragraphs of meta-discussion before
> mentioning that you have some things to contribute, rather than just a
> desire to contribute in general. Based on that, both me and Ricardo did
> not understand that your blog posts were potential contributions.
>
> Sorry if that comes across as harsh, but it's always true that
> successful collaboration is helped by clear and concise communication.
>
> Maybe that's a good thing, maybe it's a bad thing. It's the reality in
> any collaborative environment where people are busy.
>
> So, if you have a goal, my advice is to state it clearly and concisely.
>
> If you have both long-term goals (make it easier to contribute
> documentation) and short-term goals (add some Cookbook recipes or wiki
> pages), then you should present them separately, or else people will
> only focus on one of them.
>
This is good advice. I will take it to heart. I see how the ways I approached
things didn't set things up for success. Thank you.
- Re: Guix Documentation Meetup, (continued)
- Re: Guix Documentation Meetup, calcium, 2022/01/08
- Re: Guix Documentation Meetup, Matt, 2022/01/08
- Re: Guix Documentation Meetup, Ricardo Wurmus, 2022/01/08
- Re: Guix Documentation Meetup, Leo Famulari, 2022/01/08
- Re: Guix Documentation Meetup, Matt, 2022/01/09
- Re: Guix Documentation Meetup, André A . Gomes, 2022/01/10
- Re: Guix Documentation Meetup, Matt, 2022/01/10
- Re: Guix Documentation Meetup, André A . Gomes, 2022/01/10
- Re: Guix Documentation Meetup, Matt, 2022/01/11
- Re: Guix Documentation Meetup, Leo Famulari, 2022/01/12
- Re: Guix Documentation Meetup,
Matt <=
- Planet of Guix-related posts?, zimoun, 2022/01/10
- Re: Planet of Guix-related posts?, Matt, 2022/01/11
- Re: Planet of Guix-related posts?, Matt, 2022/01/11
- Re: Planet of Guix-related posts?, André A . Gomes, 2022/01/12
- Re: Planet of Guix-related posts?, Ricardo Wurmus, 2022/01/12
- Re: Planet of Guix-related posts?, Oliver Propst, 2022/01/12
- Re: Planet of Guix-related posts?, Ricardo Wurmus, 2022/01/12
- Re: Guix Documentation Meetup, Leo Famulari, 2022/01/12
- Re: Guix Documentation Meetup, ilmu, 2022/01/13
Re: Guix Documentation Meetup, Matt, 2022/01/08